Breast mass evaluation: Factors influencing the quality of US elastography

Radiology

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-64

  Chang, Jung Min ^a   Moon, Woo Kyung ^a   Cho, Nariya ^a   Kim, Seung Ja ^b  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THICKNESS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 79952996833     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10101414     Document Type: Article

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